Laptop now boots to nothing | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 1:08 AM

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I've been using Mint for my laptop for a long time. But now for some reason it shows the Asus splashscreen before booting to nothing. The battery is fine and the power indicator still comes on, but nothing else. I haven't made any recent modifications to it so I have no idea why this is happening.

Luckily I can still access the bios through the escape key, so here are the specs if that helps:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics 3200MHz
16GB ram
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
NVMe SSD
Bios version 305

Intended behavior: OS turns on as normal.
Actual behavior: Asus logo then a blank screen.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 1:19 AM

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see if u can boot the live Linux Mint USB

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if it can boot the desktop, that's something

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did u do some (bad) BIOS reflash / reset recently? almost always bad.

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did you recently moved wires or cards around inside the pc?

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is this singel- or dual-boot setup?

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 1:43 AM

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bright scroll see if u can boot the live Linux Mint USB

Live usb still works.
No recent changes to the bios and it's single boot.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 1:45 AM

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see if u had changed something in BIOS

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perhaps inadvertently turning secure boot back on

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ensure it's on pure UEFI boot mode

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and that u see the loader uefi entry named ubuntu in there

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 2:22 AM

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bright scroll perhaps inadvertently turning secure boot back on

Secure boot is off.

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Ubuntu is the only boot option.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 2:24 AM

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ok boot it up

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press esc before mint logo

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at grub menu, press e

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put nomodeset at end of second last line, and boot.

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 2:47 AM

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bright scroll press esc before mint logo

Esc opens the bios menu.

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Do you mean from the usb?

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:12 AM

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boot usb, and run boot repair from the desktop start menu

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that will force grub to show up, no matter what.

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:27 AM

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bright scroll boot usb, and run `boot repair` from the desktop start menu

It keeps saying "It is strongly recommended to always use the latest version of this software".

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:35 AM

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bright scroll boot usb, and run `boot repair` from the desktop start menu

Now pressing esc shows the option to select a boot device. Ubuntu and bios are the only options.

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Pressing esc after that shows a grub command line. But e and nomodeset don't do anything.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:45 AM

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warped tangle Now pressing esc shows the option to select a boot device. Ubuntu and bios are t...

no. just let it boot up. dont touch anything til u see the FULL GRUB MENU

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press e at that point

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:47 AM

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Ok it's showing the setparams.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:47 AM

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did u see this? #1429152383018991697 message

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:47 AM

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Yes.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:47 AM

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follow what it says there for safeboot mode

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:48 AM

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No mention of safeboot.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:49 AM

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it's in massive letters

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:50 AM

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Still no mention of it.

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It's off in the bios.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:51 AM

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#1429152383018991697 message

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:54 AM

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bright scroll https://discord.com/channels/628978428019736619/1429152383018991697/142916880794...

After pressing F10 it showed some text and now there's a single blinking line.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:55 AM

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and u already did the 'recommended' boot repair?

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:55 AM

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Yes.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:56 AM

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and usb boots with full graphics , sound, and network?

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:56 AM

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Yes.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:56 AM

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well idk why the OS just quit like this

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do u have timeshift save?

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if so, boot usb, and restore from there

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 3:58 AM

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If I do how would I access it?

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 3:59 AM

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bright scroll if so, boot usb, and restore from there

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warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 4:01 AM

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The text before had something along the lines of "error: viacon disables gpu"

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 4:12 AM

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bright scroll if so, boot usb, and restore from there

Ok I found a few.

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 4:29 AM

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The timeshift managed to boot it up properly!

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 5:10 AM

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@bright scroll after installing updates and rebooting it's right back to not working.

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 5:11 AM

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then don't update.

warped tangle Dec 28, 2025, 5:12 AM

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Just never update the laptop?

bright scroll Dec 28, 2025, 5:13 AM

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not for a few months

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and always have a fairly up-to-date system snapshot

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probably some kernel update screwed u over. Especially if u installed nvidia in some non-orthodox way

#Laptop now boots to nothing